*If you have the time, check out the work submitted for the homework assignment on the Romeo and Juliet page*
Flexing your poetic muscle
Let's make a competition to see who can create the best poem in a day.
The class will be divided into 2 teams. Each team will be further split into smaller groups. Each group will produce 2 lines for the poem using their assigned poetic element.
Instructions:
Step 1: Make teams and then groups
Step 2: Assign group task
a) group #1 creates a line using alliteration and a line using simile
b) group #2 creates a line using assonance and metaphor
c) group #3 creates a line using personification and consonance
d) group #4 creates a couplet and one line must use imagery
Step 3: The topic is "LOVE".
Step 4: Once all the lines have been created, compile them into one 8 line sonnet. It can be arranged in any order except the couplet must be at the bottom.
Step 5: Ellect one person from your team to read each line
Step 6: Begin to present (you may read normally, act, or sing your poem)
Scoring/Assessing
Creativity: 40 points - Is the poem catchy, fun, entertaining?
Content: 40 points - Does the poem talk about LOVE -good or bad?
Clarity: 40 points - Is it clear and easy to understand/follow?
Although you will present orally, your team must submit the poem at the bottom of this page for grading purposes. Your team will receive a grade according to the rubric above in the literature competency. The winners will receive a 6%. A 4% bonus will be allocated to the group who finishes first.
Lets look at an example below.
Topic: SNOW
Silvery snow sizzles as it hits the sand (alliteration)
Like the foam of the ocean on a hot summer's day (simile)
Snow, dancing through the air (personification)
It is a pearl against the steel gray sky (metaphor)
Only the lucky in the south get to see the white wetness (imagery) (couplet)
that only those on the inside of a snow globe can witness (couplet)
A snow day, snow blow-y day, a lay low day (assonance)
Witntry mix of a snowy six inches (consonance)
Work together to complete the following crossword puzzle.
*If you have the time, check out the work submitted for the homework assignment on the Romeo and Juliet page*
Flexing your poetic muscle
Let's make a competition to see who can create the best poem in a day.
The class will be divided into 2 teams. Each team will be further split into smaller groups. Each group will produce 2 lines for the poem using their assigned poetic element.
Instructions:
Step 1: Make teams and then groups
Step 2: Assign group task
a) group #1 creates a line using alliteration and a line using simile
b) group #2 creates a line using assonance and metaphor
c) group #3 creates a line using personification and consonance
d) group #4 creates a couplet and one line must use imagery
Step 3: The topic is "LOVE".
Step 4: Once all the lines have been created, compile them into one 8 line sonnet. It can be arranged in any order except the couplet must be at the bottom.
Step 5: Ellect one person from your team to read each line
Step 6: Begin to present (you may read normally, act, or sing your poem)
Scoring/Assessing
Creativity: 40 points - Is the poem catchy, fun, entertaining?
Content: 40 points - Does the poem talk about LOVE -good or bad?
Clarity: 40 points - Is it clear and easy to understand/follow?
Although you will present orally, your team must submit the poem at the bottom of this page for grading purposes. Your team will receive a grade according to the rubric above in the literature competency. The winners will receive a 6%. A 4% bonus will be allocated to the group who finishes first.
Lets look at an example below.
Topic: SNOW
Silvery snow sizzles as it hits the sand (alliteration)
Like the foam of the ocean on a hot summer's day (simile)
Snow, dancing through the air (personification)
It is a pearl against the steel gray sky (metaphor)
Only the lucky in the south get to see the white wetness (imagery) (couplet)
that only those on the inside of a snow globe can witness (couplet)
A snow day, snow blow-y day, a lay low day (assonance)
Witntry mix of a snowy six inches (consonance)